Monster Quotes

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, Enough, Become

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, Enemy, Pride

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Care, Short

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, Him, Turn

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin

Great, Men, Idiot

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.
Ron Paul

Single, Why, Vote

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

Seen, Miracle, Greater

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing, Normal, Daylight

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac

Marriage, Contend, Devours

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot

Woman, Same, Else

The ego is a fascinating monster.
Alanis Morissette

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
Lady Gaga

Wanted, Dream, Almost

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero

Idea, Within, Liked

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette

Age, Ego, Thinking

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Wes Craven

Life, Nice, Accept

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Bette Davis

Business, Until, Star

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga

Experience, Religious, Ball

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

Love, End, Nothing

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
Bryant H. McGill

Time, Human, Known

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life, Beauty, Food

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.
Tori Amos

Deep, Soul, Lives

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran

Idea, Himself, Either

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
John Irving

Forget, Away, Memory

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Ang Lee

Character, Superhero, Tragic

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
Shia LaBeouf

Sports, Angry, Him

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
Salma Hayek

Women, Men, Beautiful

I was a monster, a problem child.
Shaun White

I can see every monster as they come in.
Truman Capote

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
John Carpenter

Him, Walk, Myers

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss

Girl, Around, Whole

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